Regulation is likely to lead to better outcomes for health, education and justice, but the bill needs to offer further clarity on issues such as potency and the role of for-benefit companies, according to legal expert.
The main causal factor for homelessness and drug use is the same: Policies that constrain people's ability to meet their daily needs, secure steady employment, afford rent and be part of a stable community.
The criminalisation of sex work and drug use disproportionately affects sex workers in the LGBTQ+ community by increasing the incidence of assaults and fatal overdoses and exposing them to unsafe prison conditions in these times of COVID-19.
This first community-based harm reduction, treatment and care project in Myanmar aims to show that supporting people who use drugs is far more effective than punishment.
The future of the WHO recommendations on the scheduling of cannabis-related substances might be decided behind closed doors, in the run-up to the CND reconvened session.
Ideas and misconceptions about drugs, addiction and criminality mean that derivative moral judgements and racialised logic about "criminals", as opposed to facts about drugs, is shaping drug policy.
